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Human Cylinders

The human cylinders

Revolving in the enervating dusk

That wraps each closer in the mystery

Of singularity

Among the litter of a sunless afternoon

Having eaten without tasting

Talked without communion

And at least two of us

Loved a very little

Without seeking

To know if our two miseries

In the lucid rush-together of automatons

Could form one opulent wellbeing

Simplifications of men

In the enervating dusk

Your indistinctness

Serves me the core of the kernel of you

When in the frenzied reaching out of intellect to intellect

Leaning brow to brow       communicative

Over the abyss of the potential

Concordance of respiration

Shames

Absence of corresponding between the verbal sensory

And reciprocity

Of conception

And expression

Where each extrudes beyond the tangible

One thin pale trail of speculation

From among us we have sent out

Into the enervating dusk

One little whining beast

Whose longing

Is to slink back to antediluvian burrow

And one elastic tentacle of intuition

To quiver among the stars

The impartiality of the absolute

Routs      the polemic

Or which of us

Would not

Receiving the holy-ghost

Catch it      and caging

Lose it

Or in the problematic

Destroy the Universe

With a solution

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